Primary Recipient

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$397,633.00

Award Date

5/29/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The purpose of this R21 application is to explore the feasibility of using bacteriophage resistance as a feature of a live, attenuated, oral Listeria monocytogenes vaccine delivery platform. We are studying a phage resistant mutant in which a Tn917 insert